I've tried out to run kwrite with root-permissions. In the Konsole i've typed: kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab. The KWrite comes up, i can access the fstab, but no keyboard is visible. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. kdesu kwrite anything 2. 3. Actual Results: No virtual keyboard Expected Results: virtual keyboard Balsam Professional 12.1 and used the standard repo, and our devel repo is added too.
You must start a new virtualkeyboard instance for each user you run with. You can do that by running the command below: $ su - # plasma-keyboardcontainer # export QT_IM_MODULE=PlasmaInputContext # kwrite
With Maliit, the keyboard appears when starting kwrite as root, but it has the wrong skin.